How to Use sicken in a Sentence
sicken
verb- Many people sickened and died on the long voyage.
- The bacteria in the drinking water sickened the whole village.
- We were sickened by the reports of violence.
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They are thought to have been sickened from Sept. 6 to Oct. 28.
—Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 18 Nov. 2024
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Among the 14 states listed on the CDC’s map, Ohio has 11 sickened, the most of the outbreak.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
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The helplessness of the young victims and the savagery of the attack sickened France.
—John Leicester, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
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The prison guards brought her a milky porridge with a piece of oily fish that sickened her.
—J Wortham, New York Times, 2 May 2024
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And you can even be sickened with multiple types of the flu at once.
—Matt Rocheleau, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2018
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Of those sickened, 12 are from Ohio, according to the CDC.
—Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 27 Nov. 2019
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The outbreak has sickened people from as young as less than a year to 87 years old.
—Jonathan Lapook, CBS News, 15 June 2018
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One way to reduce the number of birds at your feeders is to sicken them.
—Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 2 Feb. 2021
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The lake stinks, and signs go up warning that the toxic sludge can sicken children and kill pets.
—Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 5 June 2021
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The strain has also sickened 67 people and caused one death.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
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The disease has killed more than 9,000 and sickened one million Haitians.
—Jacqueline Charles, miamiherald, 28 Feb. 2018
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So far, the outbreak has sickened people ages 12 to 84.
—The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 3 June 2018
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Gambino rubs our noses in it, wants the viewer to be shocked and sickened by it.
—Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2018
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So far, three farmworkers have been sickened in the U.S., one in Texas and two in Michigan.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 June 2024
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And in Hawaii, the virus caused a popular hiking spot to close after dozens of campers were sickened with the virus.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 30 Dec. 2024
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It was closed after an E. coli outbreak that claimed the life of a two-year-old boy and sickened 3 others.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2019
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Nine people in eight states appear to have been sickened by their pet guinea pigs.
—Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2018
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The Missouri patient was the 14th person in the U.S. sickened with bird flu since March, when the virus was detected in cows.
—Lindsey Leake, Fortune Well, 12 Sep. 2024
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About 200 people were sickened in the E. coli outbreak and five people died.
—CBS News, 29 June 2018
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Blooms also have been blamed for fish kills and can sicken swimmers.
—CBS News, 22 Mar. 2018
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Still, Rogge and other researchers couldn’t say for certain what in the mussels would sicken the dogs.
—Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 11 July 2018
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Christiansen said he had been sickened by the high school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month.
—David Montero, latimes.com, 20 Mar. 2018
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The outbreak has killed one person and sickened at least 75 others across 13 states.
—Samuel Burke, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
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The cereal has been the subject of a recall since last month and has sickened 100 people.
—James Hohmann, Washington Post, 13 July 2018
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In past outbreaks, about 39 percent of those sickened died.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2018
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In total, one eight-year old and five children between the ages of 11 and 17 were sickened after visiting the cave.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 23 May 2025
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Measles, a disease declared eliminated two decades ago has sickened more than 1,080 patients and caused three deaths so far this year.
—Dr. Richard Moriarty, Boston Herald, 6 June 2025
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